Engineered Bikini

After a long back!!I am visiting Pattaya,Bangkok for a Project Tour.. I just saw the inspiration...Updating an interesting fact on Automobiles :).

First Question: Can you Connect Car and Bikini

As a Petrol head I know all of them I thought
;Ferdinand Porsche, Hans Ledwinka, Dante Giacosa, Alec Issigonis, .…and the
list goes.

But
do you Know Louis Reard, he was an
engineer at Régie Nationale and Usines
Renault SA in Billacourt; I am sure you have not heared of it. What makes him
special by doing this in Cars? Nothing in Cars but yes u guessed it right.

Louis Réard, automotive, automotive engineer by profession who invented the famous ‘bikini’ named after Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific

Réard's
design was a string bikini consisting of four triangles (Engineering
Triginometry) made from only 30 square inches (194 cm2) of fabric printed with
a newspaper pattern. When Réard sought a model to wear his design at its debut
presentation, none of the usual models would wear the suit, so he hired 19 year
old nude dancer Micheline Bernardini from the Casino de Paris to model it. He
introduced it to the media and public in Paris on July 5, 1946 at Piscine Molitor,
a public pool in Paris. It was a shocking swimsuit design that for the first
time revealed the wearer's navel

Micheline Bernardin introduces the bikini to the press,
Paris, 1946

The
United States Navy had detonated a 23-kiloton atomic bomb over the tiny Bikini
Atoll in the South Pacific just four days prior Reard’s unveiling. Thinking his
swimsuit would have the same sort of dramatic impact on the public, Louis
registered the Bikini name for his creation. His instincts proved correct.
Outside France, most thought them scandalous. The Vatican issued a condemnation
and Italy, Spain and many banned them. The bikini was a hit, especially among
men, and Bernardini received some 50,000 fan letters ( You too would have done
one huh?). Réard's business soared, and in advertisements he kept the bikini
mystique alive by declaring that a two-piece suit wasn't a genuine bikini
"unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring.